week 1 notes

Notes of Week 1:

What is Life Writing?

• Early example of life writing
  • Plutarch (c. 50-125 AD)
  • Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
  • John Aubrey (1626 - 1697)
• Biographer as friend
  • James Boswell (1740 - 1795) - biography on Dr. Samuel Johnson
• biographer as guardian
• Bloomsbury
  • Sir Edmund Gosse - Father and Son
  • Virginia Woolf - Orlando
  • Lytton Strachey - Eminent Victorians
• Autobiography and memoir
  • Book of Margery Kempe - Julian of Norwich
  • WW1
    • Testament of Youth
    • Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
  • WW2
    • Anne Frank
    • Primo Levi
  • Later
    *I know why the caged bird sings
    • An Angel at my Table
  • Misery Memoirs
    • A Child Called It
    • Bad Blood: A memoir
    • Toast
    • Angela’s Ashes
    • Things my mother never told me
    • And when did you last see your father?